Tilderjones
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HI all,
I have a 5-gallon tank I've had for a few months now, fully planted tank with neo shrimp, snails, 4 beautiful male fancy guppies, and 2 healthy growing guppy fry (my female guppies managed to birth two before I returned them to the store in exchange for males only, and the males haven't bothered the babies :joyful.
I also recently got a 55-gallon, and I have 2 red sailfin mollies (1m/1f) and 3 dalmatian lyretail mollies (1m/2f), still juveniles, I think two maybe pregnant. I've had them a few days and they look healthy. The sailfins are very outgoing from the start and the dalmatians spent the first 2 days hiding (from me, they don't mind the sailfins ) but are now starting to explore more.
I was thinking...should I put the 4 male guppies in with the mollies to enjoy the new large tank...or maybe it's not a good idea?
The male guppies are friendly together but would they start harassing my female mollies because they are "sex-starved" in their single-gender tank? I don't want hybrid guppy-molly babies. Or would female mollies not let the guppies do that since they already have male mollies to do that with?
Also, would the 2 male mollies get ticked off and go after my guppies? They are not aggressive currently.
What would you do? Have you had male + female mollies with only male guppies and did the mollies still end up mating with the guppies?
Sorry if it's a lot of questions! I can't decide.
I have a 5-gallon tank I've had for a few months now, fully planted tank with neo shrimp, snails, 4 beautiful male fancy guppies, and 2 healthy growing guppy fry (my female guppies managed to birth two before I returned them to the store in exchange for males only, and the males haven't bothered the babies :joyful.
I also recently got a 55-gallon, and I have 2 red sailfin mollies (1m/1f) and 3 dalmatian lyretail mollies (1m/2f), still juveniles, I think two maybe pregnant. I've had them a few days and they look healthy. The sailfins are very outgoing from the start and the dalmatians spent the first 2 days hiding (from me, they don't mind the sailfins ) but are now starting to explore more.
I was thinking...should I put the 4 male guppies in with the mollies to enjoy the new large tank...or maybe it's not a good idea?
The male guppies are friendly together but would they start harassing my female mollies because they are "sex-starved" in their single-gender tank? I don't want hybrid guppy-molly babies. Or would female mollies not let the guppies do that since they already have male mollies to do that with?
Also, would the 2 male mollies get ticked off and go after my guppies? They are not aggressive currently.
What would you do? Have you had male + female mollies with only male guppies and did the mollies still end up mating with the guppies?
Sorry if it's a lot of questions! I can't decide.